"Florida is our home; it is where we are raising our child, and where we want to get married," said plaintiff Catherina Pareto, who is fighting to marry her partner of 14 years, Karla Arguello. "Karla and I wish for our family the same things that other families want. We want to build our lives together, provide a safe and caring home for our child, and share in the responsibilities and protections of marriage."

While a good portion of the country has seen advances in getting gay marriage legalized, Florida has lagged. In 2008, a ban on same-sex marriage was voted into the state constitution.

But the state still doesn't recognize their marriages, and any gay couple who wants the benefits married couples receive needs to go through the trouble of flying elsewhere to get hitched. Because, Florida.

The good news, however, is that since 2008, Floridians have dialed down their anti-gay marriage stance. Last March, a Public Policy Poll said that 75 percent of Florida voters now support gay marriage.

Sixty percent of the vote is needed to amend Florida's constitution. So Equality Florida has stepped things up and taken the fight to the courts.

Knowing that the majority of Floridians are now in support of gay marriage, the chief executive of Equality Florida, Nadine Smith, says it's time for the law to see it that way as well.

"Today the majority of Floridians stand with us as we take this historic step toward marriage equality in the Sunshine State," she said during Tuesday's presser.

"These couples have been embraced by their families and communities, but every day, Florida laws are denying them the protections and dignity that every family deserves. These harmful laws are outdated and out-of-step. It is time for all families in our state to have full equality under the law."